Category Archives: WTCSTL News

July 15, 2016 St. Louis Business Journal By Brian Feldt The Yield Lab, a St. Louis-based agtech accelerator that launched in 2014, plans to launch a new location in Galway, Ireland. The Yield Lab is led by former Novus International CEO Thad Simons and financially backed by Cultivation Capital. The expansion was announced Friday while […]

July 15, 2016 By John Breslin The Yield Lab, the United States’ first food and agriculture technology (AgTech) business accelerator, announced the launch of the Yield Lab Galway, in the PorterShed on Friday, 15 July. The Yield Lab Galway is a food and AgTech venture fund and business accelerator, located in Galway, Ireland. The Yield […]

June 28, 2016 By Jacob Barker St. Louis Post-Dispatch Amidst the backdrop of flattening global trade growth, Brexit and U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s threats to scrap international trade deals, area leaders on Tuesday unveiled a new plan to grow the St. Louis region’s exports. Yes, things have looked better for global trade. But it’s […]

June 28, 2016 Steph Kukuljan St. Louis Business Journal The World Trade Center St. Louis on Tuesday unveiled what officials call the region’s first integrated plan to grow exports and make the St. Louis region a top 10 market nationwide by 2020. The goal, according to the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership and its World […]

July 15, 2016 By David Nicklaus St. Louis Post-Dispatch Yield Lab, an agribusiness accelerator in Creve Coeur, announced Friday that it will open a second fund in Galway, Ireland. Yield Lab Galway plans to invest in eight to 12 agribusiness startups over the next two years. Each will receive 100,000 euros (about $110,600) and participate […]

June 28, 2016 By EQ Staff EQ Magazine Today, World Trade Center St. Louis is releasing a regional export plan that assesses the current export climate of St. Louis, sets goals for increasing exports and lays out a detailed implementation plan that local business, civic and government leaders will follow to promote St. Louis’ growth. […]

December 2, 2015 By Kelly Moffitt St. Louis Public Radio The forecast for 2016 in Madison County and the St. Louis region’s newly-created freight district includes 9,600 feet of rail track, 1 million cubic yards of dirt and 8,000 cubic yards of concrete — and the sound of barge horns. The South Harbor at America’s […]

September 24, 2015 By Kelly Moffitt St. Louis Public Radio If you’ve been to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Dogtown, or even stepped foot in John D. McGurk’s in Soulard, you probably understand how a town with such Irish heritage as St. Louis could shape a future U.S. Ambassador to Ireland. Kevin O’Malley, the […]

June 8, 2015 By Tim Nowak St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis’ great symbol, the Gateway Arch, reminds us every day how expansion and our role on the frontier shaped our city and state. It’s a legacy we carry forward — and one that gives us great strength in a globalized world where conquering the frontier […]